Let's start this thread officially now.
View: https://twitter.com/ChrisCotillo/status/1228042995011813378?s=19
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pillake01.shtml
Pillar is going to be the 4th OF, minor league signing Cesar Puello moves to "deep" AAA depth if he sticks around. Verdugo's back is uncertain for the early season so you could see this guy on Opening Day in CF, JBJ in RF or vice versa. He hits for a bit of power (21 HR last year with the likely juiced ball, but 15/16 HR prior two years as well), but is Eduardo Nunez like in taking walks with a .296 career OBP, leading to a career .701 OPS (86 OPS+). last year was the best of his career by OPS but was all in the slugging (293/442/735) and isn't very projectionable, again, due to the juiced ball.
here's concerns his stellar defense has become average (he turned 31 on January 4). add it up and he's been a 1 WAR/yr player recently, hence the price tag.
View: https://twitter.com/ChrisCotillo/status/1228042995011813378?s=19
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pillake01.shtml
Pillar is going to be the 4th OF, minor league signing Cesar Puello moves to "deep" AAA depth if he sticks around. Verdugo's back is uncertain for the early season so you could see this guy on Opening Day in CF, JBJ in RF or vice versa. He hits for a bit of power (21 HR last year with the likely juiced ball, but 15/16 HR prior two years as well), but is Eduardo Nunez like in taking walks with a .296 career OBP, leading to a career .701 OPS (86 OPS+). last year was the best of his career by OPS but was all in the slugging (293/442/735) and isn't very projectionable, again, due to the juiced ball.
here's concerns his stellar defense has become average (he turned 31 on January 4). add it up and he's been a 1 WAR/yr player recently, hence the price tag.